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The Blinding of Isaac Woodard
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In 1946, Isaac Woodard, a Black army sergeant on his way home to South Carolina after serving in WWII, was pulled from a bus for arguing with the driver. The local chief of police savagely beat him, leaving him unconscious and permanently blind. The shocking incident made national headlines and, when the police chief was acquitted by an all-white jury, the blatant injustice would change the course of American history. Based on Richard Gergel’s book Unexampled Courage, the film details how the crime led to the racial awakening of President Harry Truman, who desegregated federal offices and the military two years later. The event also ultimately set the stage for the Supreme Court’s landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, which finally outlawed segregation in public schools and jumpstarted the modern civil rights movement.
Cast
![André Holland](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//riYqFOgYLYH4Hw8p2JYTw5lXGDE.jpg)
André Holland
Narrator (voice)
![Leland Gantt](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//pZkbrBIHnOKglP5s5m3KCPISEkb.jpg)
Leland Gantt
Isaac Woodward (voice)
![Kenneth Mack](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Kenneth Mack
Himself
![Sherrilyn Ifill](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Sherrilyn Ifill
Herself
![Rawn James](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Rawn James
Himself
![Richard Gergel](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Richard Gergel
Himself
![Belinda Gergel](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Belinda Gergel
Herself
![Robert Young Sr.](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Robert Young Sr.
Himself
![Patricia Sullivan](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Patricia Sullivan
Herself
![Laura Williams](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Laura Williams
Herself
![Gilbert King](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Gilbert King
Himself
![Kari Frederickson](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Kari Frederickson
Herself
![J. A. De Laine Jr.](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
J. A. De Laine Jr.
Himself
![Nathanial Briggs](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Nathanial Briggs
Himself
![Harry S. Truman](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//n4SZGM76DQ2ENMCgtakK3KOrC2v.jpg)
Harry S. Truman
Himself (archive footage)
![Orson Welles](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//e9lGmqQq3EsHeUQgQLByo275hcc.jpg)
Orson Welles
Himself (archive footage)
![Isaac Woodard](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)